Catherine Kerrison (Orden de los libros (cronológico))

Catherine Kerrison Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Catherine Kerrison profundiza en la historia de la América temprana, centrándose en las vidas y contribuciones intelectuales de las mujeres durante las eras colonial y revolucionaria. Su erudición explora la intrincada interacción de las normas sociales, los roles de género y la agencia femenina dentro de los años formativos de Estados Unidos. Kerrison descubre meticulosamente las narrativas de mujeres de diversos orígenes, arrojando luz sobre sus influencias a menudo pasadas por alto y desafiando los relatos tradicionales para ofrecer una comprensión más matizada del pasado. A través de su investigación, contribuye a una apreciación más profunda de cómo las mujeres moldearon y fueron moldeadas por la sociedad estadounidense temprana.

Jefferson's Daughters

Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America

448 páginas
16 horas de lectura

The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson's three daughters - two white and free, one black and enslaved - and the divergent paths they forged in a newly independent America. Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. In Jefferson's Daughters, Catherine Kerrison, a scholar of early American and women's history, recounts the remarkable journey of these three women - and how their struggle to define themselves reflects both the possibilities and the limitations that resulted from the American Revolution. Although the three women shared a father, the similarities end there. Martha and Maria received a fine convent school education while they lived with their father during his diplomatic posting in Paris - a hothouse of intellectual ferment whose celebrated salonnières are vividly brought to life in Kerrison's narrative. Once they returned home, however, the sisters found their options limited by the laws and customs of early America. Harriet Hemings followed a different path. She escaped slavery - apparently with the assistance of Jefferson himself. Leaving Monticello behind, she boarded a coach and set off for a decidedly uncertain future. For this groundbreaking triple biography, Kerrison has uncovered never-before-published documents written by the Jefferson sisters when they were in their teens, as well as letters written by members of the Jefferson and Hemings families. She has interviewed Hemings family descendants (and, with their cooperation, initiating DNA testing) and searched for possible descendants of Harriet Hemings. The eventful lives of Thomas Jefferson's daughters provide a unique vantage point from which to examine the complicated patrimony of the American Revolution itself. The richly interwoven story of these three strong women and their fight to shape their own destinies sheds new light on the ongoing movement toward human rights in America - and on the personal and political legacy of one of our most controversial Founding Fathers.

2019